Today's postings

  1. [Baren 44707] Re: Exchange #50 (Sherrie York)
  2. [Baren 44708] Possible Photos of Collating Boxes and Exchange #50 Process (Gayle Wohlken)
  3. [Baren 44709] technical question (Pinto Lawrence)
  4. [Baren 44710] Gayle exchange 50 (Guadalupe Victorica)
  5. [Baren 44711] Re: technical question (Graham Scholes)
  6. [Baren 44712] Re: Exchange #50 ("Ellen Shipley")
  7. [Baren 44713] Re: technical question (David Bull)
  8. [Baren 44714] Re: technical question (Graham Scholes)
  9. [Baren 44715] exchange #50 (Linda Beeman)
  10. [Baren 44716] Re: exchange #50 (Lisa Toth)
  11. [Baren 44717] SSNW11 (Charles Morgan)
  12. [Baren 44718] Exchange #50 (Barbara Mason)
  13. [Baren 44719] Re: Exchange #50 (key sevn)
  14. [Baren 44720] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Sherrie York
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:05:18 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44707] Re: Exchange #50
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I'd like to add my voice to the thankful chorus serenading Gayle's
good work and perseverance. This was my first Baren exchange, as
well, and I'm looking forward to "meeting" everyone through their
prints.

Cheers,
Sherrie
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Sherrie York
Salida, CO 81201
http://www.sherrieyork.com
http://brushandbaren.blogspot.com
http://riosalidaart.etsy.com
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Message 2
From: Gayle Wohlken
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:08:04 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44708] Possible Photos of Collating Boxes and Exchange #50 Process
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Bea, you asked if I took photos of the collating boxes. I did, and if I can get help from son Shane for posting on my webpage, I'll put up a few today.

~Gayle
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Message 3
From: Pinto Lawrence
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:10:27 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44709] technical question
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Dear Bareners,

Does anyone know a way to get even printing on a large area surface of print (5cm x 10 cm) with a light value? I know that printing several times will give an even color and value but if you need a light value then doing printing of the same area several times will make the area become gradually darker.

I have experienced a problem with this, even after adjusting the paper dampness and the amount of nori, with Shin Torinoko, Nishigouchi and Masa Dosa papers from McClain's but not with the thinner, unsized Kita Kata paper from them.

I know that this is an elementary question and I appreciate your patience with it.


Thanks again,

Larry
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Message 4
From: Guadalupe Victorica
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:38:50 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44710] Gayle exchange 50
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Thank you Gayle, I am really looking forward to see the prints. I have never seen so many in a exchange. I am happy I could participate.saludos from Mexico, Guadalupe
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Message 5
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:39:29 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44711] Re: technical question
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Lighten the colour (add water) to the point that when you lay down two or three or four or even 10 colours you get what you want or need.

Graham
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Message 6
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:43:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44712] Re: Exchange #50
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Thanx for all the work! I can't wait to see them all! 8-]

Ellen
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Message 7
From: David Bull
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:38:45 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44713] Re: technical question
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> Does anyone know a way to get even printing on a large area surface
> of print (5cm x 10 cm) with a light value? I know that printing
> several times will give an even color and value but if you need a
> light value then doing printing of the same area several times will
> make the area become gradually darker.

Couple of ideas to try:
1) Use 'iro-nori' (tinted paste). Make a fairly runny paste mix, tint
it with the tone you want, and print with that. This works very well
for delicate colours.

2) Use just a tiny amount of the 'active' pigment, in a base of Winsor
& Newton Transparent Watercolour Medium. (or, alternatively, a liquid
gum arabic mix). Use this as your colour, and print normally with
(runny) paste.

Dave
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Message 8
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:51:10 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44714] Re: technical question
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Yes, I should of indicated the rice paste should be included with the water.... Thanks Dave.
I assumed that the writer would know about the paste. Never assume Scholes!!!!

Cheers,
Graham
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Message 9
From: Linda Beeman
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:59:11 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44715] exchange #50
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I am so excited about these prints! I can hardly stand it!
Gayle, I appreciate all your hard work. I could open the slide show just fine and it made me MORE excited!
Thank you everyone for participating! Lots of !!!!!


http://www.lindajbeeman.com
http://lindabeemanprintmaker.blogspot.com
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Message 10
From: Lisa Toth
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:54:39 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44716] Re: exchange #50
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Just beautiful Gayle. I love how they all look together! Again, thanks for all you have done.
Lisa

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Message 11
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:26:05 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44717] SSNW11
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Once again the solstice is approaching. So it is time to sign up for the SSNW11 print exchange. This is a private exchange, one of a series, timed around the two solstices each year. In past exchanges,participants have come from many different countries, and have utilized many different printmaking techniques.This is NOT an official Baren exchange, although many Baren members have participated in these exchanges in the past. I have attached the call for participation below, which contains all the relevant details. If you have any questions, then feel free to contact me off list.

Cheers ...... Charles


### CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ###
*** SSNW11: The 2011 Southern Summer Northern Winter Solstice Print Exchange ***
Exchange coordinator: Charles Morgan --- CharlesGMorgan@yahoo.com
To sign-up, send private email to me at the above address.
Sign-up deadline: December 21, 2011 ... the southern summer northern winter solstice
Theme: The suggested theme is WATER, interpreted very broadly ... oceans, rivers, lakes, swamps, water plants, water animals, water insects, water ecology, floods, droughts, rain, drinking water, boats, ... anything you can think of. If you just cannot relate to the theme, then do not worry about it ... do whatever you like.
Technique: any editionable technique you like
Due date: prints are due in my hands by March 1, 2012
Return date: I will endeavor to mail out the packages of prints to the participants by mid April. Late prints will be returned to the sender.
Paper size: 7.5 x 11 inches, or 19 x 28 cm
Image size: anything that fits on the paper
Participation fee: $20 Australian, Canadian, or US ... to cover the mailing and packaging costs ... Your fee should be included with your prints when you send them. Cash or Paypal preferred (use my email address above for Paypal). If you are financially indisposed and still want to participate, then contact me privately and I will make arrangements for you.
Edition size: to be determined by the number of sign-ups ... typically between 20 and 30 ... to be announced after the sign-up deadline ... our last exchange required 33 prints
DON'T DELAY!!! SIGN-UP TODAY!!!!
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Message 12
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:18:22 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44718] Exchange #50
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Baren printers...
the exchange looks so good...I can hardly wait to get the real thing...makes all the frustration of paper stretching worth it...I used scraps and it was cut different ways on the grain so some shrunk sideways and some lengthways...I did not realize it until I went to cut them down to size...took me awhile to figure out what actually happened and I was amazed that on such a small print it would even show up at all.

I think we should be proud of ourselves for actually getting 100 of anything printed and of course hats off to Gayle for coordinating them. Maybe we will do them again some day....

I am currently working on an artist's book with a poet and book binder...but I have all the printing. I will post photos when it is done...we are doing 50 copies so a huge job. I have 12 of one page so far...if I don't post till after Christmas you will know why.
My very best to all
Barbara
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Message 13
From: key sevn
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:27:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44719] Re: Exchange #50
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ha ha Barbara - good luck.

2011/12/9 Barbara Mason

> Baren printers...
> the exchange looks so good...I can hardly wait to get the real
> thing...makes all the frustration of paper stretching worth it...I used
> scraps and it was cut different ways on the grain so some shrunk sideways
> and some lengthways...I did not realize it until I went to cut them down to
> size...took me awhile to figure out what actually happened and I was amazed
> that on such a small print it would even show up at all.
>
> I think we should be proud of ourselves for actually getting 100 of
> anything printed and of course hats off to Gayle for coordinating them.
> Maybe we will do them again some day....
>
> I am currently working on an artist's book with a poet and book
> binder...but I have all the printing. I will post photos when it is
> done...we are doing 50 copies so a huge job. I have 12 of one page so
> far...if I don't post till after Christmas you will know why.
> My very best to all
> Barbara
>

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Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...

Subject: Carving Around Ornaments
Posted by: Ellen Shipley


Carved around the ornaments.  They'll be less fiddly to ink now.

Because we're so dry right now (Santa Ana dry) I'm having trouble with ink drying out, especially when I ink up both the window and all the ornaments.  So I'm thinking of printing them separately.

That'll be three printings with two blocks.  What a complicated process this xmas card is turning into.

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Subject: Baren Exchange #50

Barenforum, an international woodblock printmakers? website, has just had its 50th print exchange among members. In order to make this exchange special and also have as many people as possible take part in it, the forum decided to invite 100 people to sign up for it, each sending to the volunteer collator 100 hand pulled prints of his or her design. Each priint would be only 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. It became familiarly named ?The Tiny Print Exchange?. I volunteered for the collating job, so I have included a few photos of the process.

The photo above shows some of the 100 paper collation boxes I had made to facilitate the job. Because I sorted the prints as they arrived, I was not able to do this in alphabetical order. We ended up with 96 participants as some people had to drop out of the exchange. Some dropped out so late, there was no time to replace them with printmakers who were on the waiting list.

If you click on the above photo, it will take you to a page with another photo of the boxes as they are being filled, one of my husband Jim hammering slots for the ribbon ties on the archival storage boxes which would eventually hold the print sets, and two of the finished boxes.

In the middle of all this, we still had other fun -- The Burton Art Show (Jim and I both help with this, though I didn?t enter this year), the annual Apple Butter Festival also came and went (we are on the committee to make thousands of jars of apple butter in one weekend), then we drove to Pennsylvania to visit our son and made our own batches of apple butter in our family copper kettle, and finally there was an exhibit of my prints at the local Geauga Theater lobby during their run of ?Arsenic and Old Lace?. It was a busy time. Now, back to carving blocks, especially one that must go to Nevada soon. In fact, I?m late.

Enjoy your prints, Bareners!

2011 Gayle Wohlken

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Subject: From the heart of the Southwest USA, citizen from Phoenix Arizona
Posted by: Maria

If you want to be warm in the winter, there's nothing like the winters in the Southwest USA. In the summer, we put up with unreal temperatures well over 110 for endless days.
But the winters are absolutely a dream for outdoor enthusiasts.

In any case, here's a well crafted contribution from Joan Thompson, in Phoenix, Arizona USA, pretty much the center of the arts in the Southwest USA.



Well done indeed!
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Don't forget!
Deadline: December 31st 2011
Send Block Details/Information for the Colophon: http://1000woodcuts.com/forms/cityblockinfo.htm
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This item is taken from the blog MCPP Puzzle Prints.
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